Foreign Minister Eli Cohen has directed Israel’s embassies to screen the film “The Horrors of Hamas” for parliamentarians around the globe.
The video provides graphic documentation of the terrorist group’s massacre of women, children and entire families as it rampaged through the western Negev on Oct. 7.
Among the main embassies that have already screened the film are those in Washington, Berlin, London and Tokyo.
“Hamas documented the atrocities they committed against our citizens out of inhumane boasting,” Cohen said.
“We will tell the whole world, through the showing of a film which brings together excerpts from their own documentation, about the unimaginable cruelty of bloodthirsty terrorists, who harmed entire families and celebrated the severe violence,” he added.
“Oct. 7 is a black day in the history of the State of Israel. We will never forget what happened on that day and we will make sure that the world also knows exactly who the terrorist organization Hamas is—worse than ISIS,” the minister said.
On Nov. 1, members of Israel’s parliament were invited to view the 43-minute-long video behind closed doors following a request made by Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Unit.
Likud Party Knesset member Gilat Distel-Atbaryan said the Knesset physician offered MKs anxiety medication before they entered the auditorium. “I held out in the hall for five minutes and then I ran out sobbing and shaking,” she wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
Fellow Likud lawmaker Eli Dallal left after 10 minutes, he said. “After briefly watching such atrocities, I say unequivocally: Revenge is needed and a resurgence of Hamas cannot be allowed,” Dallal wrote on X.
“Remember what Amalek did to you,” wrote Education Minister Yoav Kisch following the screening, referring to the biblical archenemy of the Jewish people. “Israel needs to destroy every trace of Hamas just like Amalek.”
Likud MK Tsega Melaku reportedly fainted as psychologists were called to the Knesset.
“These despicable murderers do not deserve to be called ‘enemy.’ This thing has no right to exist in the world,” said Religious Zionism Party legislator Michal Waldiger. “The citizens of Gaza also participated in the massacre with unimaginable cruelty, so don’t talk about the uninvolved.”
“I can’t talk about the content, I’m not able to talk about the feelings,” Yesh Atid Party MK Vladimir Beliak said before adding, “Just one sentence: It’s forbidden to forget and forbidden to forgive. Forever.”
Labor Party MK Naama Lazimi said she managed to sit through most of the film.
“When the photograph of the murdered baby appeared, the picture was so painful and difficult that I had to leave. The image will be engraved in the depths of my soul forever,” Lazimi wrote on X.
Following the screening, Likud lawmaker Boaz Bismuth called on the IDF to release the video to the public “so that the whole world will know what happened to us.”
Some 1,400 Israelis, nearly all civilians, were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 surprise attack on communities near the Gaza border. Thousands more were wounded, and at least 240 Israelis and foreign nationals were taken captive.
